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meme
  1. Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.
  2. (Internet) Something, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, including quizzes, basic pictures, video templates etc. [from 1993]
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The latest meme to infect the internet features footage of Fatso the keyboard-playing cat.”
      “Rogue vendors attempted to capitalize from the growing interest in the Kenny Glenn meme and searching for Glenn directed to rogue sites.”
      “What if you could get the originator of every major internet meme in the same room?”
memedom
  1. The state or quality of being a meme.
  2. The world of memes.
memescape
  1. A notional landscape of memes, or units of cultural information.
memer
  1. (Internet slang) A person who creates or distributes memes (usually humorous material copied and circulated online).
memester
  1. A person who creates or enjoys memes, especially Internet ones.
memetics
  1. (philosophy) The study of memes and their social and cultural effects.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In the new tradition of memetics, work would be described as a replicative complex unit, probably a meta-meme.”
      “When evaluating the development of meta-memes, critics engaged in memetics must attend to mimesis.”
      “This terminology was originally introduced by Huxley as part of his concept of memetics analyzing the transmission of cultural information.”
memeplex
  1. A set of memes which interact to reinforce each other
memescapes
  1. plural of memescape
memesters
  1. plural of memester
memeplexes
  1. plural of memeplex
memers
  1. plural of memer
memes
  1. plural of meme
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Mostly, memes just liven up the timeline, prompting a retweet at best, a facepalm at worst.”
      “As people's skill at imitation increased, those memes that were good at getting copied would have spread far and wide.”
      “Different writers define memes in different ways, but they include ideas, skills, habits, inventions, stories, you name it.”
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